Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-03-15
Coufcrence Personnls.

From the Baltimore american OF sunday
the following notes are taken from its
report of the NJ. f. Church South Confer
ence now in session in Leesburg
Ia the Baltimore Conference are n NUN
Der of men who are distinguished for the
labors in the pulpit, and in other religious
fields. Rev. John Satchell Martin, ID. ID, is
probably better known than any other min
lister in the conference. He has been score
tary for thirty. four years, and the quiet
way 10 which the conference is run is due
greatly to him. He was born in Alexandria,
about seyenty-two years ago. He was con
verted at the age Of sixteen, and was
licensed to preach III 1885, at the age OF
nineteen, in the Baltimore Conference
Since that time he has occupied the mSjof
ty of the charges in the conference, and has
served as presiding elder of nearly all of the
districts AT the present time he is the pre-
siding elder of the Winchester district He
is one of the best preserved men in ;he
conference, and his voice is very Wig
orous. at the Staunton conference, Dr.
Martin submitted the paper declaring a sep.
aration from jurisdiction of the general con-
ference of the NJ e. Church DR.. Martin
was married in 1898, and for six years lived
on two hundred dollars per annnm. DE-.
Martin was first elected to the general con
ference, which met in Indianapolis iD 1856,
and has been n delegate to every conference
since.
Rev. Samuel Rodgers, d. D., presiding
elder of the Washington district, is native
of Baltimore. He was admitted into travel
ing connection March, 1919 When station
ed at Lexington Gen. Robert Il. Lee, then
president OF The Washington College. fromed
great friendship for him, and when DR..
Rodgers left for other fields, Gen Lee con.
ferred the degree Of d. ID. ON INN. All the
other members of DR.. Rodgers family are
Presbyteriaus He is Il learned maD, good
preacher and is very popular.
Rev Rumsey Smitbson, of Alexandria q
native of Hartford county, Md, is of the
family OF Smlta5ons whose uaTe is borne 10y
the Smithsonian Institute, in Washingiou
He hiss had large ard varied experience
in ministerial work, and has been uniformly
successful. While lover OF pcnce
he will not stand by gently if the church is
assailed. Dr. Rodgers writes Of
him: IF he does not tramp around like =
Hibernian st a fair, daring somebody to
tread on his coat tail, it is by no means SAT,
to do that thing with mischief prepense AID
malice aforethousht"
Rev. J. Hoffman Waugh, ID. ID. is u ne
phew of Bishop Beverly Waugh He is al
elderly man aud resembles Dr. JOHN Morris
of Baltimore.
Rev. r. r. S Housb, now stationed at
Fredericksburg, Va, Is native OF Loudoun
county. He was horn September 9,
1929, and when ne Was nine years old hi
mother removed to Mcrgantown, Monpalie
county, w. Va, where he was educated al
an academy, and ;hen ae studied medicine
He attended enc session at the University
of Mary land, and also one in the Richmond
Medical College, where he graduated lie
1854, year afterwards he entered the Bal
tmore Conference, in which he has been
laboring ever since. Besides the Baltimore
district ne has been presiding elder Of he
Roanoke district for three yeais, and has
held many important charges, among them
being st. Paul's, in Baltimore Waugh
Chapel, in Washington charges in Frede,
lex, Alexandria, Winchester, Stauntoa
Lewsburg, fredericksburg, Loudoun CIR
cult, and during the war was in charged
Front Royal circuit, in tho Valley of Virgin
ia. DIR. Hough was delegate to the Ganel
al Conference held in Atlanta in 1876 he
is one Of the most useful and succe fui
workers in the conference.
Among the other leaders in the churc.i is
John A. Kern, professor OF biblical litera-
lure and moral philosophy at Randolph
Macon College.
The Washington district extends fsoa
to Frederick sburg, aud includes,
besides Washington and Alexandra, parts
Of Fairfax, Loudoan, Fauquier, Prince Wi
lam and Stafford counties, with one Gp
in Warren county. Most oltb
territory is very beautiful and fertile. The
Manassas battle fields lie within its terrific
y. The reputation of Virginia for hcspi
ality is fully sustained by the generous
Welcome and entertainment by the peop'o
IF this district.
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